The visual quality of the material she shot is crummy, both palsied and smeared, but the decrepitude of the images also underscores that these blurry times would soon deteriorate.
And just to clarify for those of you who think you're getting bilked, the film not only includes the three different series we ran on VBS last year but reams of unreleased footage and new material shot with the band in their current refuge of Turkey.
According to HBO the finished product will include material shot by Ms. Knowles on her laptop, along with concert footage, home movies and other material.
The word dailies here refers to select material shot that day and viewed by certain crew members.
Unfortunately, the contemporary material — shot and edited in straightforward indie-documentary style, without the formal experimentation that characterized "Tarnation" — is just not very interesting.
The ad uses a body double for the scenes in the Bronx, which have been carefully spliced with material shot with Ms. Lopez in Los Angeles.
Sadly, it appears that much of the material that Mankiewicz shot was thrown away.
The footage was broadcast only a few days after the same programme aired similar material shot inside Bedfordshire's Yarl's Wood immigration removal centre, which showed a guard referring to inmates as "animals".
Last summer, an exhibition inside Buckingham Palace, entitled "Royal Childhood", featured material shot by family members themselves, including footage of the Queen as a small child, as well as videos of her with her own children.
